Note 40 — JAPAN IN THE TENTH CENTURY
Arthur Waley translation
Minamoto no Narimasa. This gentleman, together with Tsunefusa and Tadanobu, reappears in Murasaki’s Diary. The three make music together at the time of the Empress Akiko’s confinement (a.d. 1008); ‘but not a regular concert, for fear of disturbing the Prime Minister.’